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Sumatra 1.0 Is A Blazing Fast Replacement For Adobe Reader
8:00AM The How-To Geek | Windows only: The Sumatra PDF Viewer is a tiny, open-source, portable, and most of all, lightning-quick replacement for the bloated Adobe Reader we’ve all learned to replace. It’s only a 1.2MB download, so why not give it a try? More »
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CompareMyDocs Helps You Compare Document Revisions
8:30AM Whitson Gordon | Free web service CompareMyDocs is an easy-to-use tool that compares up to seven revisions of a Word document or rich text file to help you put together a final draft based on revisions you choose. More »
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12:30PM Angus Kidman | There are numerous formats for e-books and other electronic documents, but PDF remains the most common and popular. Here’s the tools you need for reading and working with PDF without spending a fortune or succumbing to Adobe bloatware. More »
Best Tools For Reading And Creating PDFs
12:30PM Angus Kidman | There are numerous formats for e-books and other electronic documents, but PDF remains the most common and popular. Here’s the tools you need for reading and working with PDF without spending a fortune or succumbing to Adobe bloatware. More »
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OnlineOCR Converts Your Scanned Documents To Editable Text
12:30AM Jason Fitzpatrick | A page of printed notes from an instructor, an old proposal you want to edit, a letter your boss wants turned into a template, OnlineOCR can help take an image of text and turn it into an editable copy. More »
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Google Adds Shared Folders To Docs
10:45AM Adam Pash | Good news for people using Google Docs to share or collaborate on documents: Google today has added folder sharing and multiple document uploading to its popular suite of web-based document and spreadsheet apps. More »
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Google Docs Viewer Bookmarklet Makes PDFs Less Freeze-y
10:40PM Kevin Purdy | Clicking a PDF and waiting, waiting, waiting for it to load, or possibly crash your browser, is an inescapable web annoyance of bad-stand-up-comedy proportions. Unless you convert all of a page’s PDF links to open with Google Doc’s streamlined viewer. More »
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STDU Viewer Is An Impressive Tabbed Document Reader
4:30AM Adam Pash | Windows only: Free application STDU Viewer is an all-in-one tabbed reader for electronic documents, supporting everything from your standard PDF to the less common comic book archive (CBZ/CBR). It’s free, fairly lightweight and snappy. More »
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Drop Thumbnails Onto One Another To Combine PDFs In 10.6
12:00AM Kevin Purdy | Mac OS X 10.5, or Leopard, gave the Preview app some serious productivity powers, but at least one feature, PDF combining, works a bit differently in Snow Leopard (10.6). PC World explains the subtle but significant change. More »
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Use Google Docs To Convert Images To Text
9:40PM Kevin Purdy | It’s not an official feature (yet), but Google Docs can perform OCR image-to-text conversions on high-resolution files you upload to it. They have to be pretty darned clear and crisp, but it’s a nice freebie. More »
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5:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | The third quarter of 2009 was filled with all sorts of useful communication tools, time saving applications and software to help you get things done. Here’s a look back at the winners in each of the categories. More »
Best Of The Best: Tools And Apps, Third Quarter 2009
5:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | The third quarter of 2009 was filled with all sorts of useful communication tools, time saving applications and software to help you get things done. Here’s a look back at the winners in each of the categories. More » 
